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Never Let ‘Em See You Sweat

By Jodi Kantor August 15, 2007 4:32 pmAugust 15, 2007 4:32 pm

Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Iowa State Fair. (Photo: Keith Bedford for The New York Times)

DES MOINES — Hillary Rodham Clinton may have been the coolest person at the Iowa State Fair today. According to The Des Moines Register, the heat index is 103, and everyone else here at the fairgrounds looked it. Makeup slid off women’s faces. Thousands of hands wiped brows and beat the still air with cardboard fans.

But Senator Clinton looked comfortable and perfectly pressed — the result, upon close examination, of a low-tech but sophisticated cooling system. First, there was her outfit. Some of Ms. Clinton’s aides looked like New York and Washington women, dressed partially or all in black. But the senator, who wore a blazer to an earlier event today, wore loose tan slacks and an even looser button-down shirt in optimistic yellow, with a T-shirt underneath. Her hair made little contact with her forehead, eliminating the possibility of sweaty, stuck bangs.

She wiped her face only a few times, as far as this reporter could see, and mostly when protected from T.V. cameras by thick walls of voters.

Her best cooling system was one available only to a few people in the entire country: Secret Service agents. A huge mob pressed around Mrs. Clinton, reporters squeezing voters squeezing campaign staff. But the Secret Service stretched cords around her wherever she went, creating instant walkways for her, and delivering sharp elbow pokes to anyone who pressed too hard against their barrier. Air may be free, but Mrs. Clinton had more of it than anyone else nearby.

Mrs. Clinton at the Pork Producers tent at the state fair.

At the end of her visit, Mrs. Clinton upped the ante, flipping meat at the Pork Producers tent, over a grill hot enough to make the air above it wave. She put a denim apron on over her T-shirt and issued a challenge to the other candidates cruising through the fairgrounds this week.

I hope the NYT knows that the picture of Hillary eating an ice cream stick is going to be a point of reference for late night comedians when they combine the picture with pictures of her husband Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

We have to have the best person we can get for president in 2008. Spewing all this hatred does nothing and makes me think that a lot of Repub operatives are busy on this site.

I don’t want a naive person in the presidency. I don’t want someone who follows the advice of others without vetting said advice widely. I don’t want someone who can’t tell a lie from the truth.

Clinton is experienced and knowledgeable. Other Democrats are as well. Let’s learn from recent elections and get beyond hatred. Otherwise, we deserve what we get. And let’s focus on issues besides the perpetual war on terror. Let’s show that we will not be cowed by the words of fear mongers.

Hillary is not normal — normal people sweat. She is a breed unique and one of a kind. Her all-consuming ambition makes her quite different from her sisters. She says one should stay out of the kitchen if they cant stand the heat.
And just because she cannot take the heat, she avoids answering the tough questions: Is she not the largest recipient of largesse from the health industry? Why did she support NAFTA when it has been a disaster for the working classes? Why did she fail to read the N.I.Report BEFORE
casting the most important vote of her career? Yes, Hillary finds the kitchen too hot for the above questions and that is why she stays out of the kitchen.

Your vote does count. And as we have learned, voting our emotions and not logic can be a mistake that costs lives yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

I haven’t yet decided on who to vote for. But if people want me to vote against Hillary Clinton, I’d appreciate their telling me why, with facts, and not with “no more Clintons” or other emotional comments.

We have major problems to overcome in this country. We need a competent leader.

As I recall, Emily Post said, “Men sweat, women glow.” And Mrs. Clinton glows, whatever the context. It’s interesting that every aspect of Mrs. Clinton’s activities — and now the media in which they are reported — draw the ire of those carrying hate in their souls. Get a life, people.

Coming from Soviet Union, I see remarkable
similarity between our former Stalins and Brezh-
nevs and Hillary. They like to eat ice cream in
public, hugging children (some of them they
killed as adults) and telling lies after lies with straight faces. And, of course, they believed, as
does Hillary, that the Big Government could solve
everything. But there was one thing they got to get credit for: they respected the military men.

You say that only gay people and liberals would vote for Hillary as if those are two groups who should scare other voters.

If more liberals would have been around in 2002-3, we would not be in Iraq right now. Damn liberals. If liberals were in control of Congress, poor people would be allowed to go to a hospital when they break their arm or get pneumonia. Damn liberals. If gays had their way, people wouldn’t be able to be fired because of who they are. Stupid gays.

Boy… you sure are right… if liberals and gays support Hillary, we better stay away from her. I’d much rather have my $650 billion go to a humiliating war in Iraq then to healthcare for Americans or health benefits for the partners of gay people.

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